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On Saturday 16 January 2010 17:46:08 Benedikt Böhm wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Yes, PORTDIR default location under /usr was a totally stupid thing. |
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> > Please don't repeat it... |
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> One thing all you /usr naggers forget is, that /var cannot be shared |
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> read-only via nfs (or bind mounts in case of virtual servers). most |
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> single-machine users probably don't care, but there is more out there |
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> than just your workstations. so putting portage into /usr is perfectly |
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> valid. |
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and good thing there is a config file for you to change it to suite your weird |
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needs. /var is a better default than /usr here. |
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-mike |
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